Un bout de papier [English translation]

Illuminated eyes

Children talking to me

I see

Familiar faces

Sitting around a table

I think

That it was the day

Of my third birthday

And everyone was there for the occasion

Innocent laughter

Where has the time

When I could still stay Mom, Dad

This is what I've learned from you, gone

A piece of paper

A little damaged

Just like my memories

Shreds of the past

Sewn back together

Make up my memories

Intertwined arms

Faces pressed closed against one another

I see

A shared moment

On the way out of a concert

And me

In the middle of us

Flooded with the love

You gave me every time

Gratefulness

And your presence

Remind me all that I owe you

That's what I've learned from you

A piece of paper

A little damaged

Just like my memories

Shreds of the past

Sewn back together

Make up my memories

Because time fails us

We end up forgetting

I'm afraid to forget

I find in my picture

A fraction of what I've been

What I've been

A piece of paper

A little damaged

Just like my memories

Shreds of the past

Sewn back together

Make up my memories